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Unrest In Memphis: Should Josh Pastner Be On The Hot Seat?

mlemaire — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 16:20:02 +0000

There probably aren’t too many college basketball coaches who have found themselves on the hot seat just one season after winning more than 30 games, but after a disappointing loss to Oklahoma State on Tuesday that left him 0-13 against teams ranked in the AP Top 25, Memphis coach Josh Pastner is probably feeling a bit toasty. Tuesday’s showdown with the Cowboys was supposed to be an opportunity for Pastner’s Tigers to prove that they were ready for and deserved national recognition. Instead it served as the latest public service announcement on why you should never trust Memphis in big games. Sure, Oklahoma State may have won [...]

Arizona Schools Opt For Mid-Day Madness Over the Weekend

AMurawa — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 22:30:39 +0000

After skipping out on the hysteria that is Midnight Madness, both Arizona and Arizona State gave their fans a treat last weekend with events centered around open scrimmages on their home court. For the ambitious desert hoops fan, they were even scheduled appropriately enough to allow the truly committed to make it to both events.

Jesse Perry will be a major factor up front for the Wildcats this season.

For the last three years under head coach Sean Miller, Arizona has opted for using the Red-Blue Game, an intrasquad scrimmage played at the McKale Center, as a chance to present [...]

Pac-12 Morning Five: 10.24.11 Edition

AMurawa — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 15:15:55 +0000

One of the themes of this Pac-12 basketball season will be the impacts that newcomers make on the conference race. And nowhere will a group of freshman be more important to the team’s eventual success than in Tucson, where Sean Miller welcomes in four top 100 recruits. Josiah Turner is the most highly acclaimed of the four, and he has a chance to step in and grab the starting point guard position from the get-go. Nick Johnson is a seriously athletic two-guard, while Sidiki Johnson and Angelo Chol are a pair of power forwards who should earn minutes immediately. For [...]

RTC 2009-10 Impact Players: Deep South

zhayes9 — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 05:44:36 +0000

Ed. Note: the previous posts in this series (Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and Atlantic South) are located here.

It’s time for the fourth installment of our RTC 2009-10 Impact Players series, the group of states bordering the Gulf of Mexico known as the Deep South region. Each week we’ll pick a geographic area of the country and break down the five players who we feel will have the most impact on their teams (and by the transitive property, college basketball) this season. Our criteria is once again subjective – there are so many good players in every [...]

Welcome Team Narcissism: Class of 2009

rtmsf — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:54:10 +0000

Well, the 2009 NBA Draft has come and gone, and hundreds of players are waking up to the soul-crushing wreckage that inevitably follows. For thirty players last night, hummingbirds are carrying $100 bills around the hotel room, there’s a case of empty Cristal at the foot of the bed, and the debilitating headache you’re sporting today is a badge of honor – Welcome to the Show. For another thirty players, there’s a melancholy tease of ‘what could have been’ as you realize your dream is only marginally within reach – no guarantees from here on… you’re just a day-to-day wage-slave like the [...]

Tim Floyd to Arizona

nvr1983 — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 03:17:59 +0000

Update: Apparently, the mainstream media is no more reliable than blogs as ESPN was completely wrong about Floyd accepting the Arizona job. Instead, he has decided to stay at USC perhaps comforted by the fact that he has Mike Dunleavy coaching in the same city to make him look like a coaching genius.

After unsuccessfully trying to woo Rick Pitino and reportedly going after Mark Few and Jeff Capel, Arizona is set to name Tim Floyd as its new head coach according to reports. In the wake of the Lute Olson fiasco last off-season, the Wildcats turned [...]

Boom Goes the Dynamite: Regional Semifinals Day Two

nvr1983 — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:01:36 +0000

We’ll be doing a full BGtD today so you won’t have any interruptions in coverage tonight. Honestly, last night’s games were kind of disappointing. Pittsburgh–Xavier was entertaining, but that was the only game that I would say was memorable from a pure basketball standpoint. Now the other games did have their own interesting subplots. UConn rolled over Purdue in a game that was close at points in the 2nd half, but I never really got the sense that the Huskies were in any danger of losing. I was particularly impressed with how the Huskies played despite the media [...]

Sweet Sixteen: Midwest Region Preview

rtmsf — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:45:46 +0000

Looking back at the Midwest Region 1st/2d Rounds…

Best Game: undoubtedly the game of the Tourney thus far, the Ohio St.-Siena game had not one, but two, game-changing threes by the underdog Saints to keep their hopes alive.

Shocker: Wake Forest’s complete and utter failure to show up for its game against Cleveland St. last Friday night. With three first-rounders on the team, there is no excuse for a team to be this mentally out of it (which they were much of the last six weeks of the season).

Cinderella That’s Not Really One: Arizona [...]

Midwest Region Game-By-Game Previews – 1st Round

zhayes9 — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:58:05 +0000

MIDWEST REGION PREVIEW (by Zach Hayes)

#1 Louisville vs. #16 Morehead State

For Louisville to win: It’s pretty simple for Louisville in this 1-16 matchup: do exactly what has gotten you to the point of receiving the #1 overall seed in the tournament. They shouldn’t have much problem playing their usual lockdown defense, employing their frantic press and letting the pure athletic ability of guys like Earl Clark and Terrence Williams completely overwhelm the star-struck Eagles.

For Morehead State to win: The triumphant [...]

NCAA Preview: Arizona Wildcats

rtmsf — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 10:10:41 +0000

Arizona (#12, Midwest, Miami pod)

vs. Utah (#5) Mar. 20 @ 7:20pm

Vegas Line: pick

General Profile

Location: Tucson, Arizona Conference: Pac-10, at-large Coach: Russ Pennell (interim), 19-13 08-09 Record: 19-13, 9-9 Last 12 Games: 8-4 Best Win: 84-67, Kansas, 12/23/2008 Worst Loss: 79-64, UNLV, 12/20/2008 Off. Efficiency Rating: 117.9 [6] Def. Efficiency Rating: 99.4 [132]

Nuts n Bolts

Star Players: Jordan Hill – 18.5 ppg/11.0 rpg; Chase Budinger – 18.2 ppg/6.4 rpg Unsung Hero: Nic Wise – 15.0 ppg Potential NBA Draft Pick(s): Jordan Hill: 3rd overall in 2009 / Chase Budinger: 16th overall in 2009 / Nic Wise: 52nd overall in 2010 Key Injuries: Garland Judkins: out indefinitely (suspension) Depth: 18.3% (#339) Achilles Heel: Interim Head Coach [...]

ATB: Conference Tournament Thursday – Mid-Day Report

rtmsf — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:11:48 +0000

There are so many games today, we thought it would be worth a quick look at the afternoon sessions that have already concluded to see what’s going on out there, especially as it relates to BubbleLand.

Reminder: keep in mind that RTC Live’s correspondents are simul-blogging from both the Atlantic 10 and WAC today, so be sure to check those guys out.

Helped Themselves.

Minnesota – Classic bubble team at this point with a 10-9 Big Ten record, 6-6 in their last twelve games, 9-9 against the RPI top 100, RPI in the low 40s and no bad losses. [...]

Pac-10 Wrapup & Tourney Preview

nvr1983 — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 04:33:33 +0000

Michael Hurley is the RTC correspondent for the Pac-10 Conference.

Pac-10 Final Regular Season Standings 1. Washington 14-4, 24-7 2. UCLA 13-5, 24-7 3. Arizona State 11-7, 22-8 4. California 11-7, 22-9 5. Arizona 9-9, 19-12 6. USC 9-9, 18-12 7. Washington State 8-10, 16-14 8. Oregon State 7-11, 13-16 9. Stanford 6-12, 17-12 10. Oregon 2-16, 8-22

Player of the Year: James Harden The third sophomore in Pac-10 history to win player of the year. The others were Jason Kidd (1994) and Mike Bibby (1998). Harden is also the third ASU player to win it following Ike Diogu (2005) and Eddie [...]

Checking in on the… Pac-10

nvr1983 — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:30:59 +0000

Michael Hurley is the RTC correspondent for the Pac-10 Conference.

News & Notes

Washington has clinched their first regular season Pac-10 title since 1985 and with a win against Washington State can clinch their first outright conference title since 1953. Washington State’s first senior class of Taylor Rochestie, Aron Baynes, Caleb Forest, and Daven Harmeling is its first to defeat all nine Pac-10 rivals since 1989. Darren Collison is shooting 91.8 percent (89-for-97) from the free-throw line this year good for second in the nation, and second on the UCLA all-time single-season chart. It may not make Oregon feel any better, [...]

Boom Goes the Dynamite: 02.28.09 Edition

rtmsf — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 17:05:44 +0000

Welcome back to Boom Goes the Dynamite. It’s Noon eastern and it’s Saturday, so that means we’re affixed to the couch for the rest of the weekend. The day gets off to a little bit of a slow start, but keep in mind that RTC Live will be coming to you from Gampel Pavilion at UConn at 2pm, and we’ll be here for the rest of the action today (all 135 games). Let’s get it going…

12:17pm. We’ve got Villanova – Georgetown on ESPN and Cleveland St. – Butler on ESPN2 right now. UNC – [...]

Checking in on the… Pac-10

nvr1983 — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:46:49 +0000

Michael Hurley is the RTC correspondent for the Pac-10 Conference.

News & Notes

Lute Olson compiled a 43-6 record against Arizona State. Since he took a leave of absence last year, Arizona is 0-4 against the Sun Devils. Against ASU, Jordan Hill, Chase Budinger, and Nic Wise all logged 40 minutes. For the year the three are each averaging over 35 minutes a game. They are the only team in the Pac-10 with three players averaging over 35 minutes a game. Come Pac-10 tournament time these three horses have to be tiring. Oregon State swept the season series against Cal for [...]